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Chapter 5: Q25DQ (page 1104)
Can water waves be reflected and refracted? Give examples. Does Huygens’s principle apply to water waves? Explain.
Yes, water waves can both reflect and refract.
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Atmospheric haze is due to water droplets or smoke particles (“smog”). Such haze reduces visibility by scattering light so that the light from distant objects becomes randomized and images become indistinct. Explain why visibility through haze can be improved by wearing red-tinted sunglasses, which filter out blue light.
If a hologram is made using 600-nm light and then viewed with 500-nm light, how will the images look compare to those observed when viewed with 600-nm light? Explain.
When unpolarized light is incident on two crossed polarizers, no light is transmitted. A student asserted that if a third polarizer is inserted between the other two, some transmission will occur. Does this make sense? How can adding a third filter increase transmission?
It has been proposed that automobile windshields and headlights should have polarizing filters to reduce the glare of oncoming lights during night driving. Would this work? How should the polarizing axes be arranged? What advantages would this scheme have? What disadvantages?
Why is a diffraction grating better than a two-slit setup for measuring wavelengths of light?
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